Improved mode of dyeing and embossing table and piano-covees



AA IACK. Press Dyeing.

Patented Sept. 24,1867.

N. PETERS. Pnoxo-Lighegmpher. whingmn, D, C.

@einen tsts getter' @Him ALEXANDER, JACK, 0F MILTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR T0 HMSELF AND VilllNVi-D BRIERLEY, OF SAME PLAGE.

Letters Palmi No. 69,098, dated September 24, 1867.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER JACK, of Milton, in the county oi' Stratford, and State of New Hampshire, have made a new and useful mprovement in the Production of Table-Cloths, Piano-Covers, or other articles ot' like character; and I do hereby declare the nature of my invention, and the manner in which it is to be pern formed, to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l, is aside elevation, and

Figure 2 a horizontal section, and v Figure 3 a transverse section of a dye-frame as used in carrying out my invcntiop.

Figure el; is u top View of a piano-cover or piece of cloth as dyed by such frame, preparatory to beine; embossed or printed or embossed and printed, as circumstances muy require. Y

The dye-frame used by me, in my process of making piano or table-cover, is like such as are employed for dyeing 'iannels or other fabrics in stripes or plaids, except that the parts thereof employed for compressing portions of 'the cloth, so as to prevent the coloring liquid from entering such portions while it permeates the rest of the cloth, are to be of the forms required to produce the 1in-dyed spaces or medallions which it may be desirable to have in the cloth. In iig. 4 these medallions er undycd spaces arc shown at a. a (l, the., Zi being the portion which is to be dyed.

En figs. 1, 2, and 3 the dyeing-frame is exhibited as partly composed of a series of open frames, a i u, 'arranged one over the other, and provided with clamp-bleclts or projections b L the clampblocks of one frame, a, being directly upon and over those of the frame a below it. The pile ot' such frames is to be placed within @being A, composed of la bed-plate, c, a follower, d, and aiseries of clamps, as shown at B B l.

The press, with its dye-t`rames so put together, and having a layer of cloth between each two oF the dyet'rumes, is to be .immersed in a dyeing:r liquid of the color required for the dyed ground, after which it is to lnremoved from the dyeing liquid and exposed-to the atmosphere or other means of effecting the drying of the cloth. or cloths.

After each piece of 'cloth hes thus been dyed, with spaces or parts of it left undyed, it is to be embossed by an embossing press, or is to bc print-ed in one or more colors and in such patterns or designs as ma;A he desirable, or it may be embossed and printed at one and the same time.

invention differs from that heretofore practised in the making of embossed and printed table-cloths, inasm'uebns, instead of printing the grounds, lL' dye them by means as described, and thus even the color throughout and on both faces of the cloth. yEhe process of printing the ground on the.eloth is apt to leave uncolored spots or ports on the wrong side of thc cloth. It is also objectionable in other respects. My imprima-l process produces clear grounds, with edges deiined and very favorable for reception of the imprints.

What, therefore, claim is My improvement in the manufacture ot' printed table-cloths or other articles oi like character, the sann-v consisting in the combination of the process of dyeing by frames, as described, with that of emboss' ig or printing the material so dyed, or those of embossing and printing, at one and the saine time, as set forth.

I also claim the-combination and arrangement oi' medallion or separate color-resisting bioelis (i la with the common plaid or stripedycing frames t u a, as described, whereby the stripe or plaid dye-frzunes may he raser... as occasion may require, for dyeing cloths with grounds having' andy-od nwdallions, as set i'orth.

' ALnxANonn JACK.

Witnesses:

R. II. EDDY, F. P. Hann, Jr. 

